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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (29723)	1/31/1999 5:09:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Fascism on the Move = Emile with a Suitcase.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (29723)	1/31/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Perhaps it was their dedication to Western tradition that led our forefathers to mount the Roman fasces behind the Speaker's chair in the U.S. House of Representatives. Made up of rods bound about an ax, this ancient symbol has appropriately become the trademark of modern fascism, I thought the house got it from the dime. The Roman fasces (or feces as they are more commonly known in polite company) are usually piled behind the podium making a symmetrical pair when Gingrich was in the chair), but on ceremonial occasions were borne before Roman magistrates by lictors (their number varying with rank) -- lackeys that represented the majesty of the state and displayed the power of the magistrates to execute (the ax) or flog citizens (the rods). It is hard to believe that the fasces were adopted by any democratic House because in Rome even in the Republic there was never any democracy. Weird too, that the House would adopt those baubles because it was the Senate of Rome that held authority. Good to see Albright is finally getting stuff together for US to lead the world in a Pax America.